Jack Parlett

Jack Parlett is a writer, poet and scholar. He completed a PhD in English at Cambridge University and published it as a monograph with the University of Minnesota Press, entitled "The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr". His second book, a queer literary history of New York's Fire Island, is due for publication in June 2022. He currently holds a Junior Research Fellowship at University College, Oxford, where he also teaches modern American literature and literary theory. His debut poetry chapbook, Same Blue, Different You, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2020, and his essays have appeared in Poetry London, Lit Hub and elsewhere. He lives in Oxford.